Hi, our UI Team Coordinator - mf - asked me to sent this email on his
behalf, because unfortunately mails from his address doesn't reach
any mailing-list.
Here is the original message:
From: mf <mf(a)mufunyo.net>
Date: October 6, 2005 1:20:56 AM GMT+04:00
Subject: ReactOS UI Team - Concept, Plan, and: help wanted
Greetings ReactOS developers and interested parties!
For the unintroduced, I am your humble UI coordinator. In addition, I
also made some graphics for the project.
-Concept-
I am here to remind you of a post that was made in the ReactOS user
forum, written by crappish (Mikko Tikkanen). In it the author wrote
of the need of a consistent user interface, the need of people that
actually have knowledge of such things, and how these people would
have to be in charge of enforcing such an interface. They should be
familiar with Windows, know how to make things accessible and newbie-
friendly, and have enough creativity to improve on existing concepts.
In addition to that, there should be someone who represents this team
and can interface it with the rest of the project, and make sure
everything is the way everyone wants it to be. Now, this
representative has been chosen. But there is no team to back him up!
-Recruiting-
So getting down to business. The UI team is recruiting two kinds of
people.
Primarily: Programmers who have sufficient knowledge to hack other
people's code, even if said code is rooted deeply in system
libraries. Skill in writing user interfaces and piecing together
dialog resources. No advanced skills beyond that required. This is
most important, since developers in this category can get straight to
business and get started on improving ReactOS.
Secondarily: Interface concept designers who have advanced knowledge
of human interfacing, easy access, logical positioning, and the
creativity to improve and expand on existing ideas. This is a
secondary category because a) right now there is little to do in this
respect, b) there are already two (counting Mikko?) of these people
in ReactOS, and c) for every 1 concept designer, there can be up to
10 implementing developers.
Even more appreciated, would be someone who fits both gloves and can
write code AND design interfaces. Sadly, experience proves that these
two traits don't usually come together in one person.
And! Just as important, though not actively recruited, I welcome icon
designers, graphic designers, font designers (that includes you,
wierd_w!), sound effect samplers, and programmers willing to
implement missing UI features (think of things such as extended
cursor/icon support, alpha blitting, runtime freetype configuration,
recycle bin functionality, control panel, autorun support, etc), on
individual application (mail me at mf(a)mufunyo.net).
-Plan-
The plan(tm) to kickstart the UI team is as follows:
Our first goal will be to make the surface experience of ReactOS
familiar. Surface in this context means the things a user will see
during and after bootup. This mainly involves modifying explorer; to
display a consistent and familiar start menu, and to show a friendly
explorer when My Computer or the Explore link is opened. This means
making all the surface icons consistent (my task), modifying
explorer's interface (the 'programmer' category), and figuring out
the best layout for the start menu (the 'designer' category).
There is no plan past this first task, because I cannot predict how
small or big the team is going to be, what feedback we are going to
get, and how fast things will move.
And that's it for my first big announcement. I hope this will get
some discussion going, and some balls rolling. I would also like to
take this opportunity to request a mailing list for the UI team,
this should have been set up right after the coordinator vote was
over, but it wasn't-- so to whoever's in charge of that, I count on
you. Thanks.
Please reply to this mail only on the general list or to me in person
(if you're not on the list and only get digests), it is only
crossposted in ros-dev to get a wider range of attention.
Thanks for reading,
mf.
Hi all
Better late than never: I'd like to thank the web team for a great job
on the new ReactOS site! Especially to Klemens Friedl, Ge van Geldorp
and Michael Wirth for the efforts that they put in, this was a big
task and they did it well.
The site is easy to navigate, looks great and should see us well into
the future as we continue to expand content and our user base grows.
Well done!
Regards
Jason
Hello,
today I tried to setup a QEMU boot environment for ReactOS.
I had a few problems to create the image and configuret the partition
on Windows.
However I could solve the problem using Linux, like this:
# create an empty 60 MB large disk image
dd if=/dev/zero of=/windows/c/reactos-emu/c.img count=121968
# initialize the MBR and partition using a DOS bot disk
qemu -fda dos5.img -hda c.img -boot a
# at the DOC command prompt:
> fdisk
# back in Linux
mformat c:
# boot ReactOS CDROM iso image in QEMU
qemu.exe -L . -hda c.img -cdrom reactos-0.3svn.iso -boot d
# Update the binaries from a fresh compiled ReactOS tree on Windows
binst.bat
Is there a better way, and is it possible without using Linux?
I also had to notice, my MTools on Windows are quite out of date.
(from 27.1.2001)
After a few boot cycles they have problems to read the image, and report:
Cannot initialize 'C:'
The Linux version works quite well on the same disk image.
Do you know of a newer WIN32 version of MTools - where can I download them?
I think this download link should also be put into the Wiki:
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_ReactOS#Using_MTools
Thanks,
Martin
Hi,
if I try to enter the forum, I get the following error message:
phpBB : *Critical Error*
Error creating new session
*_DEBUG MODE_*
SQL Error : 1062 Duplicate entry 'luljammtmkqianxjzaxegovwqjcqhyav' for
key 1
INSERT INTO phpbb_sessions (session_id, session_user_id, session_start,
session_time, session_ip, session_page, session_logged_in,
session_admin) VALUES ('luljammtmkqianxjzaxegovwqjcqhyav', 462,
1128451014, 1128451014, '54a19b66', 0, 1, 0)
Line : 209
File : sessions.php
- Hartmut
It's way too easy to make a mistake in the "Code
Validator". More that have of the time, I make a
mistake, and then, and guess what? I lose that
username, and the email, and then I have to register
again with another username and an email address!
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Hello,
The web teams has requested that we purchase a software package to handle our forum discussion on
the website. The purchase cost is $160
http://www.vbulletin.com/
We have about $90 in paypal donated for misc needs and this seems like a good buy if we really
need it. After our hack of the website this may be a good thing. I would like to have a vote up or
down about the purchase. If the majority of the project supports this then once we reach the
required amount we will purchase.
Please reply to me in private, the foundation or general lists only. Do not follow this thread on
ros-dev.
Thanks
Steven
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--- Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:32:50 -0700
> From: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com>
> To: steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: software purchase for web forums
>
> If you would, please forward this to ros-general since I don't find it
> compelling to subscribe only for this topic.
>
> I do not think that it would be appropriate for a free software
> project to use a proprietary Web forum. Instead, it should be in the
> best interest of the community to use a free software solution, such
> as PunBB or phpBB.
>
> What kind of message would we leave on the users if ReactOS, a free
> software project, uses a proprietary Web forum on the site? The said
> proprietary software currently is vBulletin, but this will hold true
> if you were to purchase Invision or some other proprietary "solution"
>
> On 9/29/05, Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > The web teams has requested that we purchase a software package to handle our forum discussion
> on
> > the website. The purchase cost is $160
> >
> > http://www.vbulletin.com/
> >
> > We have about $90 in paypal donated for misc needs and this seems like a good buy if we really
> > need it. After our hack of the website this may be a good thing. I would like to have a vote
> up or
> > down about the purchase. If the majority of the project supports this then once we reach the
> > required amount we will purchase.
> >
> > Please reply to me in private, the foundation or general lists only. Do not follow this thread
> on
> > ros-dev.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steven
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Thursday afternoon (UTC) the website will be unavailable for some time.
We're going to make the switch to the new website design then. At the same
time, we're moving to www.reactos.org as the primary name for the website,
with www.reactos.com being an alias (you'll be redirected automatically to
www.reactos.org if you use the old name).
The mailing lists are also going to be moved from reactos.com to
reactos.org, so if you have filtering in place please take this into
account.
Many thanks to Michael Wirth and especially Klemens Friedl who put a lot of
effort in the new site.
Gé van Geldorp.
I highly agree with this move.
I used to administer some vbulletin forums, and I can't speak highly enough
about them.
Viewing pleasure, secure and feature packed. Great tool+++
Ged.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Edwards [mailto:steven_ed4153@yahoo.com]
Sent: 29 September 2005 16:34
To: ros-dev(a)reactos.com; ros-general(a)reactos.com; ros-foundation(a)reactos.com
Subject: [ros-dev] software purchase for web forums
Hello,
The web teams has requested that we purchase a software package to handle
our forum discussion on
the website. The purchase cost is $160
http://www.vbulletin.com/
We have about $90 in paypal donated for misc needs and this seems like a
good buy if we really
need it. After our hack of the website this may be a good thing. I would
like to have a vote up or
down about the purchase. If the majority of the project supports this then
once we reach the
required amount we will purchase.
Please reply to me in private, the foundation or general lists only. Do not
follow this thread on
ros-dev.
Thanks
Steven
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Hi,
I have trouble with ReactOS networking. Here is what I've tried so far:
First, I have made most of the tests under qemu 0.7.2 running on
Windows 2000 (I have the same results on Linux and Windows XP... using
same version of qemu).
I use the option "-user-net".
In ReactOS, I configured my network as follow:
Gateway: 10.0.2.2
IP Address: 10.0.2.15
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
I did also give a value to the nameserver, but it doesn't matter for
the problem I have.
- I can ping 10.0.2.2 from ReactOS (I assume this tells me the
userland tcp/ip stack of qemu works properly, as well as ReactOS
settings).
On the host, I have a webserver (IIS) and an FTP server running, as
well as SSH.
>From ReactOS:
- If I type "telnet 10.0.2.2 80 " and then enter some HTTP request
(GET / HTTP/1.0), I will only get an amount (1 to many) of blank
lines. In other words: no content.
- If I type "ftp 10.0.2.2 ", the ftp client seems to send a username
by itself ("6-w" !?). So my FTP tests stop here.
- If I type "telnet 10.0.2.2 22", I will get the SSH version message,
and when I type something, I get a "protocol mismatch" error, which
looks normal.
- If I type "wget 10.0.2.2", it seems to connect (the webserver gets
the query), but then it will say it received empty data and will loop
doing this forever.
- I also tried lynx. Lynx gave me the most interesting results. I was
able to connect to the server, ask me for a cookie, receive some
headers and finally, since my password wasn't good, it gave me the IIS
permission denied page. HOWEVER, there were a lot of error messages
during the process.
Here is the one that appeared the most often: "Alert!: Unexpected
read error"
There were also a lot of "Alert!: Invalid header "....""
What I seem to understand is that some data is lost from the packets.
Something like final characters. I never had this kind of trouble with
other OS running under qemu, so I guess the problem is in ReactOS
TCP/IP stack. But I also seem to be the only one to have this kind of
problem.
Any idea where I should look first?
I'm pretty new to ReactOS and windows programming, but I'll do what I
can to provide more detail or... fix this.
Thanks.
--
Jacques Mony
Programmeur-Analyste
Les services conseils Systématix inc.
